Skinny and suffering from diabetes, Ralph Moody is ordered by a Boston doctor to seek a more healthful climate. Going west again is a delightful prospect. His childhood adventures on a Colorado ranch were described in Little Britches and Man of the Family, also Bison Books. Now nineteen years old, he strikes out into new territory, hustling odd jobs, facing the problem of getting fresh milk and leafy green vegetables. He scrapes around to survive,...

A biography of the Apache Indian chief who led one of the last great Indian uprisings in the nineteenth century.

As a youngster, the oldest boy of a big family, Ralph Moody lived valiantly through the ordeal of helping to establish the family on a barren Colorado ranch, starting from scratch in a broken-down three-room house. He tells their story of struggles and hardship

The author of "Little Britches" "continues the story of his hard working Colorado childhood and recalls his 11 and 12 year old concentration on filling his dead father's shoes. There were a multitude of ways in which to help--riding herd on cattle drives through Littleton ; loaning his horse, Lady, for a cow ; taking orders for his Mother's New England cookery ; picking fruit, riding in horse races (this was kept from Mother), getting hay, coal and...

Ralph Moody, just turned twenty, had only a dime in his pocket when he was put off a freight in western Nebraska. It was the Fourth of July in 1919. Three months later he owned eight teams of horses and rigs to go with them. Everyone who worked with him shared in the prosperity - the widow whose wheat crop was saved and the group of misfits who formed a first-rate harvesting crew. But sometimes fickle Mother Nature and frail human nature made sure...

Story of a race horse, grandson of the famous Man O' War, which tells how a runty horse, through care and training, made racing history.

Determined, daring, and cunning, Geronimo was the fiercest werrior in the West.

Little Britches becomes the "man" in his family after his father's early death, taking on the concomitant responsibilities as well as opportunities. During the summer of his twelfth year he works on a cattle ranch in the shadow of Pike's Peak, earning a dollar a day. Little Britches is tested against seasoned cowboys on the range and in the corral. He drives cattle through a dust storm, eats his weight in flapjacks, and falls in love with a blue outlaw...